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Ray Jay Perreault

Virus-"Earth's Last Battle"

Synopsis

Winner Apple Literary Award Best Ebook 2016
A suspicious virus has killed 99.99997% of the people. A ruthless warlord who moved into the White House attacks the Government at Camp David. The President moved the remaining government to an aircraft carrier in the Atlantic and left a military unit to deal with the warlord.
The decimated US Navy it is still functional, they must defend themselves from the remnants of militaries with a grudge against the US that use the opportunity to get revenge.
Joan Herl and her remaining space station Oasis crew returned to Earth and a computer playing by different rules attacked them. Their only ally was the first thinking computer SIMPOC and his surrogate named Alpha. Dr. Julius who was one of the moon colony crew members steals the research for thinking computers and with his expertise he creates another computer that rivals SIMPOC and who starts making its own plans.
Eventually, they all find out why the virus started and who is responsible.

Author Biography

Ray was born in New Hampshire, received his Bachelors of Science in Aeronautical Engineering from Arizona State University, and now retired from an influential, multi-decade career in aerospace,
Ray realized there was a niche that was calling him as he began to write deeper characters, create more sophisticated stories and realistic situations for Sci-Fi fans to relate to.
Initially attracted to heroic characters with powerful weapons taking on hundreds of aliens, Ray began his literary career with a desire to extrapolate Sci-Fi stories with a touch of everyday reality that most of us experience in work and our everyday lives.
His literary work is thoughtfully enriched by his decade long experience in the US Air Force where he flew C-130s on missions to 27 countries, and T-38s while training the best pilots in the world, as well as the first female US Air Force pilots.
During his 28 years at Northrup Grumman, Ray worked on some of the most top-secret military aircraft projects in the world including the F-23, F-35, B-2, Global Hawk and many more that can’t be named.
He is grateful to his wife, Charlene and his two daughters, for her support on this new journey.

Author Insight

Julius' Cell Structure

I enjoyed doing the research for how to create an organic brain. I admit I did use some of the information a little loosely, but the basics are accurate. Interestingly, many experts think it will be around the time this story takes place before we achieve true thinking computers. A computer can mimic many processes and computations but some of the things we take for granted take immense amounts of computing power. Being able to recognize patterns in different situations takes extremely intensive computing. The ability to take that pattern recognition further and make a decision takes a higher magnitude of computing. So not having an organic, thinking brain until 2051 isn't too far off.

Book Excerpt

Virus-"Earth's Last Battle"

In a way, Julius felt like an architect. By taking a tank where 100% of the molecules were manmade and by applying different chemical baths he could cause the molecules to align themselves. Then the magic occurred, by adding the correct mix of amino acids and viruses to the top of the tank, they would percolate through the homogenous mixture, combining as they descended, assembling like building blocks. Each amino acid added, would continue building the blocks until eventually the final perfect cell was created. Then the proper viruses would alter the cell, changing its DNA and making it into a thinking cell, of sorts.

Henry’s concepts for advanced computer processor architectures; organicware was the most recent hot topic on the board’s agenda. He could make small, simple cells and he got the billion dollars to build a massive facility. He was the ’organicware guy’ who developed the pet project of the board of directors; he got results, so he got everything he wanted.

Historically the guys that built the computer were the hardware guys, those who wrote the programs were the software guys. Julius smiled, he loved his term for his work; juicyware; not hardware and not software, but juicyware. Once again, Julius smiled and thought, at least now the software guys blaming the hardware guys and vice versa, doesn’t work. It’s all in the organic processor.

Julius was their favorite at one time, but his perfect cells were too involved to create and Henry’s were not. Henry’s were simple, compared to what Julius was working towards, but his chemical process was working and Julius’ wasn’t. Once Julius found out what steps Henry’s process followed, Julius immediately saw the hole. A hole that Henry wasn’t aware of and one that Julius could fill. Combining their knowledge would have produced a masterpiece and likely a Nobel Prize, but sharing was not part of Julius’ plan. He knew that if he waited, he would find an opportunity to combine processes and succeed. Now, his time had arrived.